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After his adventure on the Highland Falcon, amateur sleuth Hal Beck is excited to embark on another journey with his journalist uncle. This time, they're set to ride the historic California Comet from Chicago to San Francisco. Hal mostly keeps to himself on the trip, feeling homesick and out of place in America. But he soon finds himself drawn into another mystery when the young daughter of a billionaire tech entrepreneur goes missing!

Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle - this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board!

At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park on a pedestal of ice. The doctor says his heart is beating, but no one can wake him. Finn’s big sister, Bianca, suspects the beautiful sparkling book Finn got from the library has something to do with it all but the mysterious book has vanished and no one will listen. As more children are frozen, Bianca realises she’s running out of time.

Sim, Jeopardy and Nelson are enjoying an amazing holiday in Rome, until they are swept up in the mysterious disappearance of world-famous illusionist Kinetic. When Kinetic's sister finds a strange description of a Roman gladiator in a history book who sounds uncannily like her brother, the friends are determined to help. They travel through secret time doors to the spectacular – and deadly – Colosseum in 80 CE.

Told across four seasons in one year, Portly learns to swim, battles a large trout, gets tied to some fireworks by Toad, rescues a human girl, outwits the weasels and stoats of the Wild Wood, meets a young otter journeying to the sea, and sleeps between the cloven feet of the god Pan – a scene familiar to fans of the original book.

When 11-year-old Harrison "Hal" Beck is forced to accompany his travel-writer uncle on the last journey of a royal train, he expects a boring trip spent away from video games and children his age. But then Hal spots a girl who should not be on board, and he quickly makes friends with the stowaway, Lenny. Things get even more interesting when the royal prince and princess board for the last leg of the journey - because the princess' diamond necklace is soon stolen and replaced with a fake!

När Darkus Cuttles pappa försvinner spårlöst från sitt jobb på Naturhistoriska Museet måste Darkus bo hos sin farbror Max. Han och vännerna Bertolt och Virginia vill lösa mysteriet. Kanske kan de ta hjälp av sina nya grannar, skalbaggarna, som visar sig vara allt annat än vanliga insekter... M. G. Leonard är en prisbelönad, engelsk författare av böcker, dikter och teaterföreställningar. Hon har också arbetat en del i musikbranschen. Just nu bor hon i Brighton med sina två söner. Denna bok är den första delen i trilogin om pojken Darkus Cutter och hans intelligenta skalbaggar som förväntas avslutas med en tredje och sista del år 2018.

Detta är den magkittlande, andra delen i berättelsen om Darkus Cutter, hans vänner Bertolt och Virginia och deras skalbaggar. Darkus pappa är lyckligtvis vid liv, men försvinner igen precis efter att ha fått se skalbaggarna. Det verkar som att han gått över till den onda sidan och Lucretia Cutter. Nu måste de ta hjälp av farbror Max och kanske till och med Lucretias dotter, Novak. Med sig har de sina skalbaggar som troget hjälper dem. Hur ska det gå? Och vad är det för ondskefull plan som uppdagas?

Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus' dad has forbidden them to investigate any further. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead....

Darkus and his friends continue their unforgettable adventure in this final instalment of the Beetle trilogy. Arch-villainess Lucretia Cutter has a secret Biome hidden in the Amazon rainforest: can Darkus and his friends, human and beetle alike, find it before it's too late? If they can't stop Lucretia, she will release her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, and the planet will never be the same again....

Eigentlich will Darkus nur herausfinden, wieso sein Vater auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden ist. Doch plötzlich steckt er mitten in einem wahnwitzigen Abenteuer: Er wird von seinen (überaus seltsamen) Nachbarn eingesperrt und von einer Horde Käfer befreit - angeführt von Baxter, dem riesigen Nashornkäfer. Seine neuen krabbelnden Freunde muss er nun unbedingt vor einer exzentrischen Modedesignerin beschützen. Doch wie hängt das alles zusammen?

Sim's Uncle Emmett is missing and on the run from the ruthless Council of Keys. Sim and his cousin Jeopardy are determined to find him. Their search takes them through a hidden door in time to Viking Norway and a desperate mission across land and sea to stop the legendary Gjallerhorn - said to herald Ragnarök, the end of the world - from falling into the wrong hands.

A series of encouraging short podcasts about writing and overcoming hurdles, for first time novelists, from English author M. G. Leonard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why. His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time. Running for their lives, Sim and his friends are determined to outwit the sinister Council of Keys and be the first to find Nefertiti’s lost tomb and a powerful door to Ancient Egypt. They must piece together long-hidden clues if they are to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab. Can they find it before the Council finds them?